Chapter 216: The Eleventh Task Ah Q wants to be surnamed Zhao 8
Because of the news of Qiu Jin's righteousness, Lu Renbing's mood was inexplicably a little low, and he hurriedly ended the day's trip. Return to the hotel and sleep with your head covered.
He didn't want to mourn Qiu Jin or anything, they didn't have much friendship. He is just lamenting his life experience, after all, he has been a passerby for a lifetime. For a lifetime, and for a lifetime. It seems that no matter what mission you are in, you are avoiding confrontation with the enemy.
Either use the general power to suppress people, or use absolute strength to kill others. Either that, or a different battlefield, not competing with the protagonist at all. Although every life is quite nourishing. But there's always a little bit of passion missing.
is like an old Gou, who has lived one life after another, and has no young vitality at all. Well, are you still a young man? I'm more than 2,000 years old.
It stands to reason that his strength and ability should be able to go out and have a wave with others, but I don't know why, I can't be passionate all the time, and I am always willing to be an old Gou and an old silver coin behind the scenes.
After cleaning up his depressed mood, Lu Renbing fell asleep deeply.
Early the next morning, Lu Renbing got up early and started the day.
After a period of wandering, Lu Renbing had a preliminary understanding of Shanghai Tang in this era. Although Shanghai Tang in this era has the title of the Pearl of the Far East, it is still far from becoming a city that never sleeps 20 years later. The first tram is being planned, and many of the landmarks of later generations have not yet been seen.
Huang Jinrong has just climbed the stairs in the patrol room of the French Concession, and he is not the tycoon of later generations, Du Yuesheng has just entered the beach for the second time, and he is still working as a buddy in the fruit shop in the French Concession, and he is still secretly happy to help other friends evaluate and settle some small troubles, and is respected as Brother Yuesheng.
Well, these are all things that Lu Renbing saw when he was wandering around the French Concession in a rickshaw. He also admired it, went to buy the fruit of the fruit store where Du Yuesheng worked, and admired Du Yuesheng's knife technique of peeling the fruit. Well, that's still pretty cool.
Du Yuesheng hasn't read for a few days, but he still has a good impression of readers. When he saw Lu Renbing dressed in a long shirt and a scholar, he naturally showed a flattering look. This made Lu Renbing a little fluttery. The big guy in Shanghai in the future.
However, Du Yuesheng can also be attributed to the ranks of the protagonists of this era, he still doesn't want to provoke, the growth of the big guy must sacrifice a lot of cannon fodder. It's better for him to take a long detour.
He has no clue about what kind of industry he will base himself on after coming to this era, and he met Du Yuesheng, which made Lu Renbing think of an entry point for a foothold in Shanghai, that is, to package himself as a cultural person, well, a newspaper tycoon is not bad.
In the Republic of China era before the Anti-Japanese War, in addition to those warlords and party leaders on the stage, they were cultural celebrities. Being a cultural person, writing articles or something, Lu Renbing also does it, but the coolest thing is to be a behind-the-scenes newspaper tycoon. In this era, newspapers were run freely, and it was not until after Jiang Guangtou came to power that strict newspaper control appeared.
Wouldn't it be very refreshing to think about running your own newspaper and giving a pen to those future literary bigwigs.
Lu Renbing doesn't want to do business, but in these years, he has no connections and no prestige, and it is too difficult to do business. In this Shanghai beach, there are guilds for everything, even pasting a cardboard box. A person with no qualifications and no connections, wants to enter other people's fields to do things, troublesome and dirty things, and does not know how much he has to experience.
It's better to start with a cultural career that seems to be more noble. The Chinese-language newspaper industry is now in its infancy, everything is in a state of savage growth, and there is no truly influential industry leader who has come forward to organize guilds. As long as you have money, you can run a newspaper. If the newspaper becomes famous, Lu Renbing can be promoted from a clay leg to a cultural person. You can have a dignified surname Zhao, well.
Moreover, after Lu Renbing's investigation, there is now a ready-made famous journal waiting for him to receive it. As long as you accept it, as long as you manage it a little, you can immediately accumulate a lot of fame and get a lot of contacts.
This newspaper is the "China Women's Daily" founded by Qiu Jin, because of Qiu Jin's righteousness, this newspaper run by the martyr before his death has no future. Chen Boping, the editor-in-chief of China Women's Daily, also followed Xu Xilin to Anqing.
After the failure of the Anqing Uprising, "China Women's Daily" was in turmoil, and Qiu Jin was still thinking about the proofreading and publication of the third issue of this newspaper before she died.
Now if you want to receive the Chinese Women's Daily, you must start quickly, otherwise when the people in the newspaper are scattered, Lu Renbing will have to start anew.
So after Lu Renbing got the news of Qiu Jin's righteousness, he hurried to No. 91 Houdri, North Sichuan Road, which is the site of the China Women's Daily and Qiu Jin's foothold in Shanghai.
This place is not considered a concession now. But it's also a special location. This is the result of the cross-border road construction of the public concession, and after the establishment of the concession, it has developed rapidly. The foreigners in the public concession are always thinking about expanding the scope of the concession. However, at this point, no official in the Qing court was willing to bear the stigma of selling, so it was never allowed.
But this could not stop the foreigners, they illegally crossed the scope of the concession to expand outward, and they did not say that it was to expand the territory, but to build roads. Improve transportation.
Playing the side ball, the Shanghai official turned a blind eye and acquiesced, this is a cross-border road construction. Building roads across borders is a long-term process. After the Gengzi year, the Qing court was defeated, and the concessions of various countries became more and more unbridled. These boundaries where roads were built, and after the Republic of China, they were justified and assigned to the concessions.
Now North Sichuan Road Houdri is in such an unknown location. Although the countries did not set up patrol houses and garrisons here, theoretically the Qing court still had the right to enforce the law here.
But the officials in Huhai really don't have the courage to come here to arrest people.
So when Lu Renbing arrived, there were still people in the office of China Women's Daily. But because of the founder Qiu Jin, the editor-in-chief is righteous.
When Lu Renbing arrived, the people in charge were Chen Wanlan, the assistant of Editor-in-Chief Chen, Chen Zhiqun, the editor, and Ms. Wu Zhiying, Qiu Jin's friend and close friend of Shanghai Girls' School, who were discussing something behind closed doors, and the atmosphere was quite gloomy.
Because of the incident between Anqing and Qiu Jin, the China Women's Daily has been in turmoil. They were discussing going to Shaoxing to collect Qiu Jin's body and Chen Wanlan's escape. Chen Wanlan is the younger sister of the martyr Chen Boping. Given the importance that the Qing court attached to Xu Xilin's Qiu Jin case, it was only a matter of time before the search was made.
After all, this is not a real concession, and once the Qing court is ruthless, it is only a matter of time before they are arrested. In addition, there is the problem of collecting Qiu Jin's body, after Qiu Jin was killed, his body was exposed for several days. Everyone in the Qiu family is still in prison, and whoever else goes to collect the corpse may be considered to be the same party, so no one has collected the corpse so far.
Wu Zhiying, who is Qiu Jin's best friend, is planning to go to Shaoxing and join Qiu Jin's other two best friends, the Xu sisters, to collect Qiu Jin's body.
As for the third issue of the China Women's Daily, which has not yet been published, no one cares anymore.